English noun: touch modality |
1. | touch modality (cognition) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) |
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| Samples | Only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us.
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| Synonyms | cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch |
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| Broader (hypernym) | exteroception, somatosense |
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| Part meronym | somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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